Chapter 18. CAN YOU REALLY BE ANONYMOUS?

In a phrase: probably not. Electrons and paperwork are forever.

Too much ties together what we do and where we are to who we are. This is true whether we are in cyberspace or in real space. Each of us is tied to our nation by citizenship, to our name, to our parentage and ethnicity, and to our birth-date on paper via birth and hospital certificates from the time we are born. According to the United States Passport rules: